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# Re: Means of gathering data

- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:42:31 PDT
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    >Thank you for pointing this out to me, and if you could point me in the
    >direction of those MOO security documents I would very much like to have a
    >look at them.  The MOO I'm a wiz on is small, everybody knows everybody else,
    >but we're starting to grow...

    Um, in BioMOO's library we have a security document by Seth, and one by Rog
    - feel free to drop by. I guess their authors (and many others) can provide
    better pointers to more updated stuff.

    >While we're on the subject, I have an interesting question.  'player' will
    >revert to its initial value in the calling verb when the calling verb is not
    >running with wizard permissions.  What happens if a wiz-owned verb changes
    >player, sets task perms to non-wizard, then calls another verb?  Will 'player'
    >stick to the value set when the task had wizard permissions, or will it revert
    >to the inital value of player in the original verb, because the task didn't
    >have wiz perms when it made the new verb call?

    The latter is the actual behaviour, as documented in the Programmers' Manual.

    Cheers,

    -------------------------------------------------------------
    Gustavo Glusman               Founder/administrator of BioMOO
    -- Gustavo@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il
    -- http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/Gustavo
    -- BioMOO: telnet bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il 8888
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References:

- Means of gathering data

- From: Irina Sadomova <irina@merv.cs.nyu.edu>

- Re: Means of gathering data

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- Re: Means of gathering data

- From: Gustavo Glusman <bmgustav@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il>

- Re: Means of gathering data

- From: Michael Moore <mike@mail.datasys.net>

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